She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.
ALAN PATONMoney is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures. Money is to make happy the lives of children.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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Sorrow is better than fear.
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It was not his habit to dwell on what could have been, but what could never be.
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The truth is, our civilization is not Christian; it is a tragic compound of great ideal and fearful practice, of loving charity and fearful clutching of possessions.
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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
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And whether they do not see him there in the grass, or whether they fear to halt even a moment, but they do not wake him, they let him be.
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But when the dawn will come, of our emancipation, from the fear of bondage and the bondage of fear, why, that is a secret.
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And man’s destruction of his own environment, is to exemplify in your own lives man’s humanity to man and man’s reverence for the place in which he lives.
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St. Francis of Assisi taught me that there is a wound in the Creation and that the greatest use we could make of our lives was to ask to be made a healer of it.
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Then some unknown rebellion brewed in you, doing harm to you, though how I do not understand.
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I couldn’t face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)
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There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all.
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For mines are for men, not for money. And money is not something to go mad about, and throw your hat into the air for.
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I am a weak and sinful man, but God put His hands on me, that is all.
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The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator.
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Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end.
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